Gizmos & Gadgets: An Open Source 3D Printed Wind Turbine for Personal Use

September 11, 2014 – A company in Poland, Omni3D, is a 3-D printing manufacturer and it has come up with a wind turbine, the AirEnergy3D, that operates in low wind conditions and generate 300 watts of continuous power. That’s enough to keep a laptop computer, several smartphones and a couple of light bulbs burning. The company has a Kickstarter campaign on the go and have raised the target amount they requested and some from numerous pledges.

AirEnergy3D is portable. You can move it to catch the best breeze. You can plug devices into it directly to get a charge. Or you can plug the electricity it produces back into your household power system. The shape of the turbine blades help to capture the maximum amount of rotation in low wind conditions.

It comes in a kit with all the parts including electronics. Or you can access the plans to build the wind turbine blades yourself using your own 3D printer. The electronics you can source from Omni3D. And because it is open source, you are encouraged to make improvements to the design and share these with other AirEnergy3D purchasers.

A nice gesture, when Omni3D achieves funding milestones in their Kickstarter campaign they have pledged to send AirEnergy3D wind turbines for free to villages in Africa currently off the grid..

Cost for the kit – around $350 U.S. With four days to go and having exceeded their funding target, we should see AirEnergy3D kits available early in 2015. In the interim you can get a 3D printed trophy, a personal thank you from the inventors, and your own AirEnergy3D Basic Kit with a $485 Kickstarter pledge. Check it out.

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